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Henke, Linda – Educational Leadership, 2011
In Maplewood Richmond Height, Missouri, the Teacher Home Visit Program has become a crucial component of the district's success. At the end of the first semester of the 2010-11 school year, discipline referrals were down 45 percent, and parent attendance at each school's first open house was up by almost 20 percent. Attendance is nudging up as…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Home Visits, Training, Family School Relationship
Sobel, Andrea; Kugler, Eileen Gale – Educational Leadership, 2007
In 2004, immigrant-rich Annandale High School in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., launched a focused effort to bring more parents of students from immigrant families into school leadership. Nearly half of the parents of Annandale High students are immigrants to the United States--and they come from more than 80 different countries.…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Communication Strategies, Immigrants, Partnerships in Education

Adair, Jan – Educational Leadership, 2000
Drug Strategies' updated guide evaluates the 50 most popular U.S. prevention programs. Project ALERT scored high in overall quality, administrative ease, and rehearsal and role plays. Key components include age appropriateness, identification of social pressures, instruction in refusal skills, interactivity, normative education, family…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Guidelines, Parent Participation, Peer Influence

Fuller, Bruce – Educational Leadership, 1996
A coauthor of "Who Chooses, Who Loses?" (1996) argues that choice does little to desegregate schools or break down ethnic family enclaves. Choice schools are usually founded on publicly financed organizations. Choice appears to increase parental involvement without substantially improving student achievement. Choice schools need clear plans for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Benefits, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education